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Why school shootings? Not enough God, not enough guns

Why school shootings? Not enough God, not enough guns

We have spent the last 60 years telling God to get lost from our public schools. It should come as no surprise that He’s not around when we need Him.

I know a man who was living in a neighborhood when a salesman came door to door selling home security systems. He told the salesman he already had one. “What’s your security system?” he asked. The man replied, “God and a loaded gun.”

It wasn’t a matter of either/or but both/and. I suggest we have mass school shootings because we don’t have enough God on our campuses and we don’t have enough guns.

When tragic school shootings happen, like the one in Florida, everyone sends their “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the victims. But why don’t we pray before these shootings happen instead of waiting until somebody’s dead? Everyone understands that prayer in school is appropriate in the wake of a tragedy like this. But if it’s appropriate after, there’s no reason it’s not appropriate before.

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Contrary to what the ACLU, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and activist judges believe, there is absolutely NO constitutional prohibition against prayer in schools. Schools routinely incorporated prayer into their school days from the Founding until 1963, when activist judges mangled the Constitution and mysteriously materialized a prohibition out of the judicial ether, a prohibition that had remained completely undetected since 1791 when the Bill of Rights was first enacted.

The First Amendment only restricts the federal government: “CONGRESS shall make no law…” The First Amendment was never intended by the Founders to serve as a restraint on states or schools. In fact, the federal government is prohibited by the Founders’ Constitution from messing with prayer at all. The central government and all three of its branches – including the judiciary – is flatly forbidden from “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion in any way. So if a federal court – even the Supreme one – bans religious exercise in public schools, it is prohibiting something the Constitution protects, which means it is the COURT which is violating the Constitution, and not the schools.

In fact, properly speaking, it is impossible for a school, or an administrator, or a teacher, or a student to violate the First Amendment by offering public prayer on campus, for the simple reason that it was not written to restrain them. The Founders intended to leave all matters of religious regulation in the hands of the states.

As Joseph Story, appointed to the Supreme Court by the Father of the Constitution, James Madison, wrote (emphasis mine):

“Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice, and the state constitutions.”

Bottom line, according to the Founders’ Constitution, if a state wants to allow prayer in schools, it is absolutely free to do so. It is time for state governments to start reclaiming that constitutional right whether a federal court likes it or not since federal courts have no jurisdiction in the matter.

We have spent the last 60 years telling God to get lost from our public schools. It should come as no surprise that He’s not around when we need Him.

It’s instructive to compare the number of school shootings prior to 1963 when prayer was permitted in schools and the number after when it wasn’t. According to Wikipedia, the number of school shootings by decade from 1900 until 1970 looks like this: 15, 19, 10, 9, 8, 17 (in the 1960s).

The increase by decade after prayer was removed from schools is almost geometric: 30 (in the 1970s), 39, 62, 60, and 145 (from 2010 to 2018, with the number growing virtually by the month).

The number of deaths from school shootings follows a similarly grisly progression. In the six decades prior to the removal of prayer from schools (1900-1960), there were 62 deaths from school shootings, an average of just over 10 per year. In the six decades since (1960-2017), the number has ratcheted up astronomically to 419 (from 28 in the 1960s to 124 so far in this decade), an average of just under 70 per year.

It has always been a matter of obvious and demonstrable fact that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all in these school shootings is that when a shooter comes on campus, there is rarely anyone – a teacher or an administrator – who is armed and able to stop him.

Armed school resource officers are simply not enough. There were two of them present on the Florida campus, but the shooter easily evaded them. Who knows how many adults were in a position to stop the shooter but, unarmed, couldn’t do anything but throw their own bodies over students to protect them, as one of the football coaches heroically did in Parkland.

The 2nd Amendment quite conspicuously protects the “right of the PEOPLE” (not just the military or law enforcement) “to keep and bear arms.” It’s there for self-defense, and for the protection of vulnerable people who look to us for protection – our families and our students.

I remember hearing a story about a guy who was sitting on the roof of his house as the flood waters rose. A neighbor in a motorboat came by and asked him if wanted a ride. He said, “No, I’m trusting in God to save me.” Then a Coast Guard helicopter came by and asked if he wanted them to carry him to safety. “No,” he said, “I’m trusting in God to save me.” Shortly after that, a police boat came by and asked him if he wanted to jump in. He said, “No, I’m trusting in God to save me.”

Well, about that time the flood waters reached the roof and he drowned. When he reached heaven, he complained to God: “I trusted you to save me and you didn’t do it.” God’s reply: “What do you mean I didn’t save you? I sent you two boats and a helicopter.”

We can’t very well blame God for not coming to our aid if we fail to use the tools (prayer and the Second Amendment) He has graciously given to us.

I think a better explanation than God would be the rise of the welfare state.

The 70’s were also the decade of the expanding welfare state. Expanding government programs help get people to look to the government for help and lessoned the pain of making bad decisions. Government replaced the roll of fathers and the number of children born outside of marriage skyrocketed.

Dependence in this area also created the mindset that the government could take care of most things, including safety. To many now look first to the politicians to come up with policies to keep them safe instead of relying on themselves and solutions at the local level.

Absolutely correct! Blame the Democrats and the Liberals for taking GOD out of the schools. We are seeing the effects of Godlessness in our society. We innodate society with violence on TV, in the theaters, and in games numbing society to violence. There is no right or wrong any longer, there is always some excuse for doing wrong instead of a consequence. We see it in our Politicians as well. Cover ups, deception, lies….It has all become normal Democratic behavior. Want to be a girl and you are a boy…Okay, You can find a Democrat to support you. Look at what happened in Ohio. Child taken away from parents because they disagreed with a crazy gender issue. And the Christian parents are the problem? Better start bringing GOD back in a hurry!

Sorry, God does not abandon His children. Cruz was armed and had several extra magazines. there were 2700 students in the school. 17 were tragically killed by an 18 year old kid. This kid was able to buy an AR?? gun legally. How does that happen when the police had 30 calls over the past couple of years. This idea of keeping track of these records just doesn’t work. If you see anything, report it, that doesn’t work. Mental health care is a joke! If someone is Baker Acted they can only be held for 12 hours. it takes more than 12 hours to stop some nose bleeding. The Doctors can keep them longer by holding them for a hearing with a Judge. If the Judge orders further care the patient stays. They tell you for 30 days, but if the insurance only pays for a week, they are released in a week. The Government action that makes this system so ineffective was closing the Mental Hospitals by Jimmy Carter. It was treated as an incarceration. That was when we were able to protect the public and patients. Just in case we should have armed guards in schools.

How many of these Gun Free Zones (aka Sanity Free Zones) at high schools also have provisions to take pregnant female students to abortuaries without parental consent?

If these lobotomized leftist loonies cared one splink about children, abortion would end tomorrow as would the government subsidies to the little ******** (as in out-of-wedlock child). Teenage pregnancy? That’s the parents’ problem, not mine.

Hell is packed with leftists, socialists, commies, libtards, Democrats, RINOS, gun grabbers, abortionsts, sodomites, transfreaks also know as the wicked in the Bible. And there is plenty room for the living ones too. Hell is in the earth, why do you think there are volcanoes?

There are two things the Author left out that are also needed and they are CRIMINAL CONTROL and COMMON SENSE. See if Criminals were punished for their crimes they would be less likely to commit them. Common Sense would tell people this TRUTH. EVIL is why this Happened and because LIBERALS would rather deny EVIL exists and blame the thing used to kill that these MASS MURDERS happen.

I’m all for CHRISTIAN prayer in schools, but that is NOT where prayer is REALLY needed. The HOME is where prayer is really needed. Children witnessing their parents praying, and living like Christians are supposed to live, will turn our society around in one generation. This will not happen, of course, because the events we are seeing today are clearly predicted in the Scriptures. All that is left for prophecy to be fulfilled, is for Israel to sign peace treaties with the arab nations. When that happens, the countdown to His second coming restarts. Study the Book of Daniel, and the Book of Revelation.

There are always consequences to your actions. The libtards don’t seem to understand any equations that involve negative behaviors or the outcomes from them. Look at their math outcomes, 2+2 doesn’t necessarily equal four if you FEEL it should be something else.

And when the school board and local cops made a deal to NOT Punish delinquents, to help their student graduation rates, IMO this falls firmly on the school boards idiotic decisions.
CAUSE MAYBE THAT that law not been passed, then the cops COULD HAVE DONE something to Cruz during any of those 39 call outs to his house..